A WOMAN has been given a life ban from her local for accidentally puncturing a radiator with a wayward dart.

Lorna McGrath, 25, was shocked to be shown the door after wrecking the pub's heater during a late-night game of arrows.

The travel agent said she was barred from The Elizabethan in Dunfermline even though she had offered to pay for repairs.

Pub bosses had to call in an emergency plumber at 3.30am to stop the leak.

Lorna said: "I am absolutely furious. I can understand them being unhappy but to ban me from the pub is extremely harsh.

"I used to work there part-time as a barmaid and I was still going in up to five times a week.

"Ninety per cent of the people I socialise with drink in there."

Calamity struck as Lorna, of Townhill, played darts with friends. She admits the "match" degenerated into high jinks and they began doing trick throws.

The fateful dart, thrown from 6ft behind the usual toeline, plunged into the radiator below the board. Lorna said: "There was a hissing noise and when I went over there was water spilling out this minuscule hole.

"We phoned a 24-hour plumber and they told us to turn the water off at the mains but we could not find the mains."

As the bar closed and customers left, Lorna and her pals on the staff called in the pub's co-manager, Allan McIntyre.

They eventually managed to get a plumber out and he removed the radiator.

Lorna offered to pay the £175 repair bill but days later a message was relayed to her from the pub's other co-manager, Sam Cutmore, that she was barred.